Iraq has lost Fallujah to Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, a senior security official said Saturday, putting militants back in control of the city in Anbar province where American forces repeatedly battled insurgents. And fighting in Anbar killed 65 people…
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The five Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staffers seized by an unknown group in northern Syria this week are Belgian, Danish, Peruvian, Swedish and Swiss nationals, the humanitarian organisation said Saturday. “We can confirm that our personnel who have…
The United States on Saturday said it was closely watching developments in Iraq’s Anbar province, where militants have taken control of Fallujah, condemning Al-Qaeda-linked fighters for committing “barbarism.” Iraq has been fiercely battling the Islamic…
4 January 2014 – The security situation in South Sudan remains “fluid”, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country…
3 January 2014 – United Nations peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have stepped up patrols in…
3 January 2014 – The situation in crisis-torn South Sudan remains tense today and, with clashes reported between pro- and…
3 January 2014 – The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic remains dire with insecurity hampering the delivery of…
Dozens of journalists protested Saturday in Malaysia against the suspension of a weekly magazine, urging the Southeast Asian nation to allow greater press freedom. The Heat stopped publication last month after the Home Ministry suspended it, saying…
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hit out against a corruption probe that has dragged down members of his government, calling it an “attempted assassination” and a “judicial coup”. At a luncheon in Istanbul with generally pro-government…
One person was wounded Saturday when an improvised bomb exploded in the Kenyan capital, police said, in a shop in Nairobi’s mainly ethnic Somali district Eastleigh. The attack is the latest of a series of bomb or grenade blasts in Kenya. “One person…
Hundreds of Lebanese took to the streets of the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday to protest the torching of a decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest. The demonstrators held up banners that read “Tripoli, peaceful town” and “This is…
Former first lady Barbara Bush went home Saturday after six days in hospital for pneumonia, a statement from the office of her husband, former president George H.W. Bush, said. The 88-year-old thanked the doctors and nurses at the Texas hospital where…
A blast that killed the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic this week “was not an accident,” despite an official theory to the contrary, the envoy’s daughter said Saturday. “What is certain is that it was not an accident,” Rana al-Jamal, who…
Egypt vowed on Saturday to confront Muslim Brotherhood protests with “full force,” as security officials said 17 people had been killed in nationwide clashes the previous day. The Brotherhood, which demands the reinstatement of ousted president Mohamed…
Lately, the science of happiness seems to be a popular subject among Western societies. Perhaps it’s because our societies our built around capitalism, which has directly lead to many of us living to work with little time to actually participate…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday reversed a blanket ban on protests at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Russia had initially banned any political protests in the Russian Black…
Egypt’s foreign ministry said it summoned Qatar’s ambassador on Saturday in protest at Doha’s criticism of the military-installed government’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated following the Egyptian…
Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat has commended the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Federal Ministry…
Americans rekindle their peculiar love affair with the post-Edwardian demise of English aristocracy on Sunday when season four of “Downton Abbey” premieres on US public television. The internationally-acclaimed period drama set in a grand old Yorkshire…
WASHINGTON — A recent political coup. Drug trafficking. One of the world’s highest murder rates. With attributes like those, Honduras may not sound like an easy sell for international investment. But that hasn’t dissuaded the World Bank, whose mission…